Certificate in Working With Couples

A Modular Workshop for Working with Couples, run by Juliet Grayson, Mary Clegg, Nicola Jones, Lottie Passell-Syms and Cassandra Jay

Each module is approved for 14 hours CPD by COSRT: College of Sex and Relationship Therapists

This is a description of Juliet’s 12 day modular workshop (six modules of two days each). If you attend all twelve days, you will receive a Certificate In Couples Therapy. However, whilst some people will attend this as a whole course, participants are also welcome to attend just for one module, or two modules.

The Certificate in Couples Therapy Course is designed for people who usually work one to one, and want to work with couples…or those who are doing some work with couples and would like to update their skills. Counsellors sometimes come who have no intention working with couples, they attend these courses for their own learning about relationships (as they say, their clients are all in relationships – so these courses really help them with their clients…..and they are in relationships themselves too!!!).

All six modules are run each year, by one or all of the trainers: Juliet Grayson, Mary Clegg and Nicola Jones. The six modules can be taken in any order, and you do not need to take them all. Some people take 4 or 5 years to complete all 6 modules. You decide what you want to book based on your personal needs, diary and finances. Each module is endorsed by the College of Sex and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) for 14 hours CPD .

Certificate in Counselling Couples: The Six Modules

NB The Fundamentals module does NOT have to be taken first. The modules can be taken in any sequence

A. The Fundamentals of Working With Couples (which used to be known as An Introduction To Working With Couples) for Therapists/Health Professionals who Usually Work One to One.

B. Communication and Difference

C. Sex and Ageing

D. Meeting Their Partner’s Needs

E. Couples and Conflict

F. Dealing with Affairs

The Fundamentals of Working With Couples
for Therapists, Coaches and Health Professionals who Usually Work One-to- One

Two days, the first day is all about relationships and on the second day we discuss sex and different sexual dysfunctions, and how they can be treated.

By the end of the course you will have explored:

What to expect when working with couples

The first session

Decentring: a method for working with couples

How to start the couple communicating

How to help the couple negotiate

Framework for understanding relationships dynamics

Patterns of intimacy

Dealing with sexual issues such as erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, loss of desire, and vaginismus.

Communication and DifferenceUnderstanding different styles of thinking & different ways of approaching thingsBased on the de-centring model of Dr Michael Crowe and Jane Ridley; and on meta-programmes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

This course also uses video of a therapist working with a couple.

By the end of the workshop you will have:

Seen a video of a couple in role-play using decentring and communication skills

Practiced listening for values, and helping a couple to discover shared values

Learnt about 5 different thinking styles (meta-programmes) that people use

Understood how meta-programme differences are a significant source of conflict

Learn what your personal meta-programme preferences are

Learn about language patterns that make communication easier

Practiced working with these issues in a role play situation

Meeting Their Partner’s NeedsExploring How People Get Their Needs Met In RelationshipsBased on work by Anthony Robbins and Harville Hendrix

Delegates will be asked to fill in a questionnaire to help explore their own attachment style

NB Juliet runs a separate day called Parent Infant Attachment and the Impact on Relationships. This has different content and is complementary to ‘Meeting Their Partner’s Needs’ which is more about the Developmental Stages than the early Attachment Issues.

Dealing with AffairsBased on work by Rona Subotnik, Gloria Harris, Kate Epstein and the work of David SchnarchBy the end of the workshop you will have:

Understood the prevalence of affairs, and different types of affair

Explored some of the reasons why they happen

Thought about common reactions to an affair

Looked at distorted and defeatist beliefs

Explored what is required in saying sorry and forgiveness

Helped a (role play) client confront their fears

Explored how the process of differentiation affects affairs, integrity and blame

Couples and ConflictBased on work by Susan Quillam and David SchnarchBy the end of the course you will have: